Assassin’s Creed Victory Leaked

Unity and Rogue may only have been out a few weeks, but it looks like the next Assassin’s Creed game has already been leaked.

Footage has been shown to the folks over at Kotaku of an Assassin’s Creed title – codenamed Victory – set in Victorian London.

The footage, apparently taken from working gameplay in Unity’s anvil engine, looks pretty far along. Here’s the full description given by Kotaku

The video begins with an assassin, presumably the game’s protagonist, climbing up a tower and looking out at the city of London. We get a quick overview of the city as the camera flies from alley to alley, showing us some of the game’s potential side activities (gambling in a pub, street-racing with carriages, and so forth). We then cut back to the assassin, who leaps down to the street, makes his way into a nearby horse carriage, and accepts an assignment from a mysterious masked woman. The task: kill a man named Roderick Bulmer, who has been trafficking little girls for the assassins’ ancestral enemies. “The templars must receive our message,” says the woman. “You must send it in blood.”

Mid-conversation, the carriage is attacked, so the assassin makes his way out and takes out several enemies—who are bearing templar insignias—while keeping his balance atop the moving buggy. It’s frantic. A few quick kills later, the assassin arrives at the Charing Cross railway station, where he swaps his hood for a top hat and runs through the crowd, ignoring side quests (“stop that thief!”) as he hunts down Bulmer, who is standing among the crowd in the middle of a train plaza.

Our assassin hops and leaps to a platform overlooking the trains, takes out a guard, then uses what appears to be a new item—a grappling hook—to swing over to Bulmer and stab him in the chest.

Once Bulmer is dead, the assassin jumps onto a moving train and fights off more templar soldiers while crossing the River Thames. As the video draws to a close, our protagonist leaps from the train into a conveniently-placed haystack, then staggers forward as the camera pulls toward the London horizon. Then the logo: Assassin’s Creed Victory.

As you can see theres clearly some new gameplay innovations here, what with the grappling hook and the fights on moving trains. It’s also the first Creed game developed by Ubisoft’s Quebec studio.

So what do we think? Personally I’m pretty excited – I’ve always wanted an Assassin’s Creed set in Victorian London – but is it a little soon to be showing the next game in a series that already seems to be reaching saturation point? And it’s not like Ubisoft are high in gamer’s perceptions right now after the mess of Unity’s – and now The Crew’s – launches.